"mob-barley" > wrote in message
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> cybercat wrote:
>
> > It wasn't Mob singing. However, I believe he sings all sorts of things.
He
> > does indeed have a beautiful voice.
>
> Thank you Cyber, no I wouldn't cast my pearls that easy
> but sometimes I will jangle a little, and flash shiny things
>
> > It is part of the whole Mob Barley
> > package, though. You don't get to just pluck that particular chocolate
from
> > the box and eat it after you have stuck your thumb in others to see
what's
> > inside that you don't like.
>
> speaking of chocolate, I have a concert coming up in a big black church
> in richmond, (It's a black tie affair) i've been working on some of the
> oldest black spirituals around... songs like, Lord mamma's tired,
> Mamma the Lord's tired too, Can't nobody do me Jeus, and Nobody knows
> the truffles I've seen.

<groannnnnnn!>

>
> Black is the color of obsession, not pink
> My first experience in a black church, I sat down at the piano on the
> platform, I was 16 years old. I started in with an old song... a big
> ol' mamma stood up and shouted! "SANG IT WHITE BOY", she just smiled at
> me. I bout fell out! They started moving about the isle's lifting their
> hands, shouting... uh.. they really know how to have a good time. They
> pulled me out of mediocre singing, into hot sweaty singing, the kind
> that the keys on the piano get slippery, wouldn't trade it for nothing.
>
> "I'm glad about it!" (that's also a song title im working on) we have
> fun at football games, the pool halls and the clubs, why do we think we
> should become God's frozen chosen when we get to chirch... the brothers
> and sisters have what you call.."Throw down church", or "High Church".
>
> One can't come to such rejoicing, unless there is an opposing end, and
> black people have suffered, historically and even today endure harsh
> racisms.
> I am fortunate somehow to find myself in the middle of it, not only
> socially but in ministry.
>
> It's not over till its over, it's an uphill journey, im coming up the
> rough side of the mountain, I've lost some jobs, been through some
> wives, dissapointments not a few! I should have been dead along time
> ago, but I am still here! that is the thing I like the most about it!
> If everything in my life was hunky dory, I would be concerned that I am
> going nowhere, anytime you are doing something worth doing there is
> going to be opposition.
>

I like this post so much I could not cut any of it out. Maybe I will come
see you sing in Richmond.